The Architecture of the City: Urban Futures - Cultural Pasts

Dates - 3 days

Jul 6 – Jul 8, 2026

The conference explores the built environment's complexity, diversity across disciplines and time, requiring social awareness and historical knowledge. It addresses contradictory and contested aspects, filtered through various forms like buildings and cultural objects. Hosted in Istanbul, a city embodying these themes as a historical capital of Byzantine, Roman, and Ottoman Empires, a UNESCO World Heritage Site center, and a global cultural hub (European Capital of Culture 2010), it focuses on t

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